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MonthJuly 2014

Massive Malware Infection Breaking WordPress Sites

The last few days has brought about a massive influx of broken WordPress websites. What makes it so unique is that the malicious payload is being blindly injected which is causing websites to break. While we’re still researching, we do want to share share some observations:

This infection is aimed at websites built on the popular WordPress CMS

It is targeting sites with outdated (vulnerable) plugins or weak admin passwords.

Malware is highly obfuscated and attempts to inject SPAM to the hacked website . Continue reading

IF YOU USE vBulletin forum software on your web site this is for you!!!

The vBulletin team just released a security patch for vBulletin 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 to address a SQL injection vulnerability on the member list page. Every vBulletin user needs to upgrade to the latest version asap.

vBulletin is a very popular forum software used on more than 100,000 web sites.

Directly from vBulletin.com:

A security issue has been reported to us that affects the versions of vBulletin listed here: 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 We have released security patches to account for this vulnerability. The issue may allow attackers to perform SQL injection attacks on your database. It is recommended that all users update as soon as possible.

You can download the patch for your version here: http://members.vbulletin.com/patches.php

If you can’t patch vBulletin, we recommend blocking access to the memberlist page in the mean time.